The American Bronze Company aka American White Bronze Company was a company that produced and sold through trade catalogs,

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(known as “white bronze”) statues, and memorials. It was founded in about 1885, initially as a subsidiary of the

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. In 1892, the foundry, owned by Paul Cornell, was located in Grand Crossing, Illinois where Cornell owned a watch company. Around 1900 the company moved to

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. The firm is best known for producing cemetery monuments and

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monuments, for both the Union and Confederate causes. “In the wake of the American Civil War, memorials to citizen soldiers who died during the conflict proliferated across the national landscape. Many of these monuments were replicated over and over using available mechanical processes to reproduce sculpture.” The American Bronze Company produced many of them. The company, by then known as the American Art Bronze Foundry closed up during World War II. Grissom, Carol A., Zinc Sculpture in America: 1850-1950, University of Delaware Press, Newark, 2009 pp615-616

Selected works

* ''Hall County Confederate Monument'',

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, 1909

References

{{reflist Foundries in the United States American sculpture defunct manufacturing companies based in Chicago American companies established in 1885 Design companies established in 1885 Zinc companies Funerary art